Republican state legislators are backing a bill that revamps Wisconsin's John Doe investigation law, under which prosecutors have conducted two separate probes into Gov. Scott Walker's campaign activity.

As Port Washington celebrates the world's largest one-day fish fry on Saturday, we take stock of how the tradition got started in Wisconsin and get advice from a chef about how to make great fish fry at home.

Two years ago, Edward Snowden leaked hundreds of thousands of classified government documents that revealed the inner workings of the U.S. government’s security network and set off a debate about government surveillance that’s still reverberating today. The leaks also prompted a heated debate over whistleblowing: Whether whistleblowers like Snowden are...

The director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, one of the political groups involved in the now-blocked John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign, is calling for Milwaukee County prosecutor John Chisholm to lose his job over his role in the probe.

The master plans for managing the Mississippi River’s headwaters are getting an update almost 40 years after they were first released and the Army Corps of Engineers is looking for public input on how to manage the lands.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison on Thursday. Earlier in the week he called for prison reform at the NAACP annual convention. We speak with advocates for prison reform in Wisconsin about the initiative.

A day after the state Supreme Court shut down a probe into Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign activities during the 2012 recall election, a pair of Republican lawmakers are calling for changes to Wisconsin’s John Doe laws. Sen. Tom Tiffany from Hazelhurst and Rep. Dave Craig from Big Bend have proposed...

Environmental groups are among those critical of Thursday's state Supreme Court ruling ending a John Doe investigation into political coordination of donations. The high court voted 4-2 to end the probe into whether Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and conservative groups violated campaign finance laws in 2012. Kerry Schumann of the...